Hypothetically...

...if we had explored an old abandoned hospital tonight, it might've looked like this:

Wheatley-Provident Hospital

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And hypothetically, it might have inspired me to look up some details about the building when I got home.

The following was blatantly stolen from several websites (links provided though):


Wheatley-Provident hospital was the first medical facility to serve the Black community of Kansas City, MO.

The limestone building has two wings. The original wing was built in 1902 as the St. Joseph's Parochial School. It then became the Perry Sanitarium and Training School for Nurses in 1910, named after Dr. J. Edward Perry. The second wing, added in 1925, was designed by the well-known Kansas City architecture firm of Hoit, Price, and Barnes. The hospital, however, had become too small and outdated to fully serve the community’s needs. Through the efforts of many area civic groups, Wheatley-Provident was replaced by Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital. On June 12, 1972, the last patients of Wheatley-Provident were moved to the new hospital.

One of the last historic buildings in this part of Kansas City, Wheatly-Provident Hospital retains a strong historical association with the 18th and Vine neighborhood just a few blocks to the east, which was the heart of Kansas City's African-American community during the years of segregation. The building is vacant. It is threatened by neglect and is currently listed as a dangerous building by the City of Kansas City, Missouri. Wheatley-Provident Hospital is listed in the Kansas City Register of Historic Places.
(http://www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=2249; http://www.preservemo.org/2008MostEndangered.html#wheat)

The century-old hospital building at 1826 Forest Ave., briefly morphed into a haunted house in the early 1990s. (Hence, the signs reading "The Asylum").
It's for sale for $750,000.
(http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2007/06/04/focus18.html)


(http://10pastmidnight.blogspot.com/2008/11/wheatley-provident-hospital.html)

Link to medical journal article that involves the hospital from 1926:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2623828&blobtype=pdf

This is all hypothetical of course. Not that we explored that building or anything.